1) What is Equiano’s main purpose in this text?
2) What is the Middle Passage? What does this experience involve for Equiano?
3) Describe Equiano’s first impression of white people. What factors contribute to this impression?
4) Contemporary historians claim that Olaudah was born in the United States and fabricated the story of his kidnapping based on slave accounts that he heard as a young child. Does this distract from Equiano’s narrative? If so, how so? If not, why not?
5) **This should be a long answer- at least a full paragraph, if not more**
Olaudah Equiano was a product of the Enlightenment. In fact, his written narrative is full of Enlightenment ideals. How does the Enlightenment help Equiano win his freedom? How does he frame his support for abolition within an argument for commercial trade with Africa? What other frameworks does he provide as makes his final plea for the abolition of slavery? What textual elements can you cite or quote that show the Enlightenment in his work?
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